Higher Commercial Management School is a structural division of the professional programmes faculty of the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry for Economic Development of Russia (RFTA). It is established by a special Government Decree in 1988 and has been one of the first business schools in Russia.

For already more than twenty years the Higher Commercial Management School of RFTA has been training professionals by using great home and foreign experience in the field of business education and by relying on its mission:Individual training of highly qualified managers in conformity with Russian and international standards,
the creation of conditions providing for the mobility of education which opens up new opportunities for the
formation of the European labour market and the united educational space.

The MBA Programme is accredited by the European Council for Business Education (ECBE), Switzerland

The Higher Commercial Management School has regularly been ranked among the best ten Russian business schools carrying out educational work on MBA, EMBA, DBA and other programmes of professional retraining.

LICENSES AND ACCREDITATIONS

License of the Federal Supervision Service in the sphere of Education and Science № АAA 002298 of November 28, 2011

Certificate on State Accreditation № BB 000293 of March 25, 2010

Accreditation of the HCMS MBA program by the European Council for Business Education (ECBE)

LCCI Certificate for the HCMS as an Examinations Centre

EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTS

MBA and EMBA (programs of training top-managers)

State Diploma on further (additional to higher) education with the award of the qualification "Master of Business Administration"

MA program (a specialized part of the MBA program)

State Diploma on professional retraining, certifying one's right to carry out new professional activity

DBA program

State Certificate on upgrading the qualification, certifying one's right to carry out new professional activity